Ten Runs in Nineteen Days!

... and I survived!!!

I run 3x a week RELIGIOUSLY. If I do too much, I get injured. I've kept this sort of training plan since Covid, and it's worked WELL for me. So I do a long run on Monday (with some hard effort in the middle), usually an easy run on Wednesday, and then a speed workout on Friday if I'm feeling good. That gives me 2 days to "rest" over the weekend before hitting it hard again on Monday (and if we have a lot of family things planned over the weekend, I don't have to worry about fitting in some run workouts as well - a good system!).

But the Turkey Trot 5K on Thanksgiving threw a wrench into that plan. Would I run on Monday that week, then take 2 days off, then race on Thursday, then take THREE days off before my normal Monday run? That would be just 2 runs that week, and no real long run. For it being a short and causal race (that I was treating just like a tempo workout), that felt like too much down-time.

I explained it a little in this post, but I decided to do my long run a day early on the weekend before Thanksgiving. That way, I could run it pretty normally as it was 4 days pre-race with another easy run before the race as well. Then I felt good at the race and decided to do an easy run 2 days later on Saturday.

That all felt good, so then I hit last week very "normally" on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, doing some decent treadmill intervals on Friday.

SO I survived! I squeezed in an extra run (and a race), and got in 10 runs over 19 days!

Here's those 3 weeks of my training calendar with the "running days" highlighted in red: M, W, F as normal the first week, but then adding in a Sunday run so I could run Tu, Thur, and Sat the following week:

It's even 3 weeks with 3 long runs and 3 speed days! Whew! I made it!